Modern Historic Eras
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Endangered Site: Port City of Coro, Venezuela
One of South America's best preserved towns, this Spanish colonial port city now faces deteriorating conditions
March 2009 |
By Karen Larkins
Endangered Site: Famagusta Walled City, Cyprus
Once located in the midst of high-volume shipping lanes, a forgotten city with multiple European influences could be lost forever without an intervention
March 2009 |
By Helen Starkweather
The Inventor of Air
Known for discovering oxygen, scientist Joseph Priestly also influenced the beliefs of our founding fathers.
February 09, 2009 |
By Bruce Hathaway
The Journey to Elsewhere, U.S.A.
A professor explains how new technology drastically altered the modern American family unit
January 29, 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
Shepard Fairey: The Artist Behind the Obama Portrait
A portrait created by a graphic designer ended up becoming the icon for the Obama campaign and an international phenomenon
January 14, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
The Divine Art of Tapestries
The long-forgotten art form receives a long overdue renaissance in an exhibit featuring centuries-old woven tapestries
December 23, 2008 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
A Creche Reborn
In rural Connecticut, a 300-year-old nativity scene is brought back to life by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
December 08, 2008 |
By Courtney Jordan
A Monumental Struggle to Preserve Hagia Sophia
In Istanbul, secularists and fundamentalists clash over restoring the nearly 1,500 year-old structure
December 2008 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Sketching the Earliest Views of the New World
The watercolors that John White produced in 1585 gave England its first startling glimpse of America
December 2008 |
By Abigail Tucker
Sarah Vowell on the Puritans' Legacy
The author and 'This American Life' correspondent talks about her book on the colonies' early religious leaders
November 04, 2008 |
By Amanda Bensen
Raiders or Traders?
A replica Viking vessel sailing the North Sea has helped archaeologists figure out what the stalwart Norsemen were really up to
July 2008 |
By Andrew Curry
Forbidden No More
As Beijing gets ready to host its first Olympics, a veteran journalist returns to its once-restricted palace complex
March 2008 |
By Paul Raffaele
Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne
The concubine who became China’s last empress
March 01, 2008 |
By Amanda Bensen
Turn the Page
Electronic books may soon vie with library cards for space in your pocket
January 15, 2008 |
By Eric Jaffe
Revolutionary Real Estate
Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived
December 2007 |
By Hugh Howard
The Gates of Paradise
Panels from the Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti tour the U.S. for the first time
November 2007 |
By Arthur Lubow
Site Seer
Faced with the Internet's overwhelming clutter, Joshua Schachter invented a deceptively simple tool that helps us all cut to the chase
October 2007 |
By Adam Rogers
I, Lender
Software engineer Matt Flannery pioneers Internet microloans to the world's poor
October 2007 |
By Amy Crawford
Flower Power
Studying ancient botanical drawings, Daniela Bleichmar is rewriting the history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas
October 2007 |
By Rick Wartzman
